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Economic Bulletin
by Pao-Yu Oei, Claudia Kemfert, Felix Reitz, Christian von Hirschhausen in: DIW Economic Bulletin 8/2014Coal-fired power stations are responsible for around a third of Germany’s carbon emissions. Failure to reduce the persistently high level of coal-fired power generation threatens Germany’s climate targets for 2020 and 2050 and undermines a sustainable energy transition. Calculations ...
15.08.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Christian von Hirschhausen, Felix Reitz in: DIW Economic Bulletin 8/2014Three years after the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima one observes a certain momentum with regard to lifetime extensions as well as some interest in new building ofnuclear power plants. Advocates of nuclear power argue in term of low-cost electricity generation, a secure supply as well as a contribution against climate change. ...
15.08.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Claudia Kemfert, Christian von Hirschhausen, Casimir Lorenz in: DIW Economic Bulletin 8/2014In January 2014, the European Commission proposed a framework for its climate and energy policy up to 2030. It includes targets for reducing greenhouse gases and using renewable energies, but no specific targets for increasing energy efficiency. By 2030, greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced by 40 percent ...
15.08.2014
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Economic Bulletin
Europe Needs To Further Diversify Its Gas Imports: Seven Questions to Claudia Kemfert
15.08.2014
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Economic Bulletin
by Hella Engerer, Franziska Holz, Philipp M. Richter, Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert in: DIW Economic Bulletin 8/2014Natural gas makes a major contribution to European energy supply. Consequently, the political crisis between Russia and Ukraine increases fears of the consequences of Russia suspending natural gas supplies to Ukraine and the European Union. The last time this occurred was ...
15.08.2014
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Press Release
In the past decade, wages in Germany have risen more slowly than economic performance. Year on year, average wages remained approximately 0.3 percent behind what was available in redistribution volume, given the development of production. Although there are also sectors with low wages, in which wage increases were insufficient according to this benchmark--such as the hospitality industry, construction, ...
13.08.2014
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Press Release
There are fewer and fewer people employed in the German manufacturing sector. Between 1999 and 2013, the number of people working in the industry fell from 7.7 million to 7.3 million. However, not all areas have been equally affected by the decline, rather, there has been a functional restructuring within the industry: while fewer people are being employed in production, employment in many production-related ...
13.08.2014
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Report
We are pleased to present highlights of the 11th SOEP User Conference in this short video. SOEP2014 Video Report
06.08.2014
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Report
For the third time the Graduate Center Summer Workshop took place in the avendi Hotel at Griebnitz Lake in Potsdam from July 2nd to 4th 2014. One more time it turned out to be a big success for the participating students. During the three-day workshop, GC11 and GC12 doctoral students presented their current research and received feedback from their supervisors and peers. The workshop was well attended ...
06.08.2014
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Press Release
Greece finds itself at the crossroads. There is the imminent question if Greece should apply for a third public support programme. Government officials are confronting European partners with new calls for a de facto haircut on its outstanding debt. Another option would be to swap existing loans from the European support programs into GDP-linked loans. As a result, interest payments would be linked ...
30.07.2014
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Press Release
The mobility of the labor force within the European Union - measured as the proportion of EU foreigners in EU-15 countries to the total EU labor force - increased by approximately one-quarter to almost 3.1 percent from 2007 to 2012. This is primarily due to increased migration of persons from the new eastern European EU member states such as Poland and Romania and, to a lesser degree, due to increased ...
23.07.2014
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Report
Nils Saniter, doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since September 2009, successfully defended his dissertation Educational Interventions and Labor Market Outcomes in July 2014 at FU Berlin. The dissertation comprises three papers that investigate the effect of educational policies on the school-to-work transition of individuals and their labor market success later in life.
22.07.2014
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Report
The SOEP’s 2013 Wave Report has just been published. It provides an overview of the SOEP’s activities in 2013, a year filled with numerous activities marking the SOEP’s thirtieth survey wave. These included a timeline series tracing the development of the SOEP survey and life in Germany in the context of broader global events, the SOEP Anniversary Colloquium on Happiness Research, ...
21.07.2014
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Report
Daniel Huppmann, doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since October 2011 and Research Associate in the department of Energy Transportation Environment since October 2012, successfully defended his dissertation Strategic Behaviour in Energy Markets in June 2014 at TU Berlin. The dissertation investigates several topics from energy economics where market power and strategic behaviour plays an ...
21.07.2014
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Press Release
Economists have long discussed the correlation between the quality of competition policies and a country's productivity growth. It is, however, very difficult to prove this connection, to determine its extent or to quantify it. Commissioned by the European Commission, a team of international researchers, led by DIW competition expert Tomaso Duso, has developed the first evaluation system to assess ...
16.07.2014
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Report
The role of merger control is to protect the interests of consumers over those of major corporations. To improve this protection, European merger control underwent comprehensive reforms in 2004. The aim was to increase the importance of economic principles in reaching verdicts. An empirical study indicates that the Commission is now making fewer mistakes since the reforms. However, prohibiting mergers, ...
16.07.2014
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Report
The new SOEPinfo not only contains documentation on SOEP-Core, but also on the new data format SOEPlong, our innovation panel SOEP-IS, 13 pretests from past years, and the Berlin Aging Study II (Base II). In the coming weeks and months we plan to activate further functions that will help users in their work with the data.A first prototype for the new basket and script generator has to be tested that ...
12.07.2014
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Report
PIAAC-L stands for the extension of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)—which was conducted as a cross-sectional study in 24 European countries in 2011/12 on behalf of the OECD—now as a longitudinal study. PIAAC-L is a cooperation project between the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS) at ...
11.07.2014
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Report
Since financing of the study Families in Germany (Familien in Deutschland, FiD) through the German Federal Ministry of Family Affairs (BMFSFJ) has ended after four waves, the households surveyed in FiD will be included in the SOEP as of 2014. To justify this, the sensitivity of the combination of the samples was tested, comparing the distributions of selected variables in the SOEP with their distributions ...
11.07.2014
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Report
Background There is an increasing trend among surveys worldwide to connect respondent data with information from (governmental) administrative records. By using these linked data, researchers hope to validate, increase and specify their item sets and to lessen respondent burden. The SOEP has joined this promising development and seeks to connect the elaborated respondent data from the new SOEP Migration ...
11.07.2014